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NCA. 623,842. Patented Apr. 25, |899.`

G. R. SHEVILL.

TEXTILE.

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GEORGE Sl-IEVILL, OF NEWV YORK, Y., ASSIGNOR TO MARY E. SHEVILL,

. OF SAME PLACE.

TEXTILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,842, dated April 25, 1899.

Application filed October l5, 1898. Serial No. 693,639. (No specimens.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE R. SHEVILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of .New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Textiles; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in t-he art to which to it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to incorporate with a textile fabric-that is to say, with a Woven or knitted fabric as a base-a superficial layer or covering of down or fur, therex 5 by producing a finished article of manufacture of great beauty and utility.

The natural skins of down-bearing birds and of fur-bearing animals are largely employed in the manufacture of wearing-apparel; but such material is comparatively rare and costly.

By my invention it is proposed to artificially produce at comparatively small cost a material having a base or backing of woven may be made of any required texture, shape,

and extent. I

Heretofore feather trimming has been made, or attempts have been made to produce feather trimming, by interweaving the membrane or quills of feathers, with the barb or vexilla attached thereto, into a fabric with which the membrane or quill is incorporated. Such material, however, besides being comparatively costly to manufacture, differs from my material in many respects, but more particularly in the absence of the downy appearance exhibited in my product. Moreover, material of the class above described is limited to the incorporation of feathers with a fabric and is not applicable to the incorporation therewith of fur or down.

The distinguishing characteristics of my 5o invention are due 'to the fact that I provide a uniform covering for the fabric base, or a or knitted fabric that closely resembles furl covering which is substantially of the same degree of thickness or homogeneity throughout, and also to the entire absence of any skin or membrane.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of the reverse side of a strip of my materiahshowing an extended end of plain fabric-that is, of fabric without the covering of down or fur incorporated with it. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a strip of material, showing the reverse side from that illustrated in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing, upon an enlarged scale, an end View of a knitted fabric forming the base or backing and illustrating the manner in which the down or fur is engaged by the thread in the act of knitting.

Referring to the figures on the drawings, l indicates the strands of a continuous thread which in the form of embodiment of my invention illustrated is knitted into a fabric 2.

3 indicates a superficial layer, covering, or pile, as of down or fur.

In order to clearly set forth how my materialas illustrated, for example, in Fig. l-is produced, I will state that I utilize a knittingmachine or loom of any preferred description, such as is well known in the art and which for that reason does not require herein illustration or description. During the knitting operation I provide in close juxtaposition to the needles or web-formin g mechanism a loose mass of fur or down design-ed to be incorporated with the fabric, conning the mass in its loose state in such a manner as will keep the thread l constantly working among the mass in such a manner as will cause it to take in each bend or loop that it makes in being incorporated into the web a small quantity of the hair or downy iilaments that constitute the mass of down or fur in which the thread works. The fur or down is fed solely by gravity to the needles or Web-producing mechanism, so that the web is formed, as it were, in an atmosphere of down or fur out of which it continuously feeds and incorporates with itself a portion. In the manner described the hairs or downy filaments are severally caught up and conined within the loops of which the web 2 is composed and produces upon the surface of the web so fashioned the downy or furred ICC 

